Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-16
AT COSBY BEACH.

Sea on the East Shore-Last Sunday,
 Service for the Cottagers. On the shore of Long Island Sound abou ! one mile and half from the old lighthous
 is Cosy Beach, where is collection of prett
 cottages all erected within the last few years The spot is a favored one and growing fast ii ! public estimation. It commands a grant | view of the broad bosom of the Sound anc ! the dwelle1s there are hearty in praise of i as healthful pleasure resort. Those oceu pyiDg the cottages are as follows: Frederick Vinten and family, New Haven
 F. H. Stiles, Joseph Pierpont and family, A
 B. Clinton and family, North Haven. Rev. and Mrs Barber, Mrs. J. H. Barber 1 Miss Catherine Barber, Edward Barber | Edith Specs. Manchester.
 MT. and Mrs. Sherman Brown, w. E Brown, Misses Nellie and Kittie Brown, Will l lie Brown, Canton.
 MT. and Mrs. F. B. Robinson, Joseph Billa1 and family, MT. and Mrs. H. w. Schofeld New Haven.
 Misses Nellie and Amelia Robinson, Bur dett Robinson, L. Hemingway, Clifford Jones, Mrs Maynard, Montowese.
 Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Barbour, Misses Josie and Lizzie Whiting, Cora Barbour, MT. and Mrs. w hltlng, SOutnlngtOn.
 MT. and Mrs. John Barbour, Loin N. Bar bour, Tabor, Iowa.
 Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Barbour, H. O. Barbour and family, Collinsville.
 Mrs. F. E. Hall, New York.
 Miss Grace s. Arnold, Middletown.
 Mrs. A. H. Dickerman, MT. and Mrs. F. L. Stiles, North Haven.
 Mir. Calvin Russell, Joseph Mcdonald, North Haven.
 The cottagers and friends and neighbors attended divine service at the Beach at o'clock The sermon was delivered by Rev. Clarence Barbour of Manchester, Conn. The occasion was of very interesting character and very satisfactory to all present. Mir. Barbour preached from the words Mark 9, 5, Matt. g, 37, 36: ''It is good to be here; and let us make three tabernacles, one for thee and one for Moses and one for Elijah" 'fThen saith he unto his disciples, the har- vest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the har- vest that he send forth laborers unto his harvest. At the evening hour of a summer day Christ and three of his disciples had gone up to secluded spot on the side of Mt. Hermon. There he was transfgured before them. And as the disciples saw in the darkness of the night the glorifed form of their master and two that were talking with him, Peter ex- claimed: It is good for us to be here; and let us build three tabernaeles.
 It was the nearest approach to Peters con- ception of heaven of anything that he had ever seen and for the moment, at least, it seemed to him that nothing could be more desirable than to remain there in company with Christ and the prophets of old. Itwas far better than to go down and again mingle with the toiling, suffering millions in the valleys below.
 Such has been the thought of many Chris tians all through the last eighteen hundred years. But such was not the teaching of the master. Instead of teaching them that the first thing for them to seek was ease and rest and comfort, he pointed them to the great harvest fields and said to them, "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he send forth laborers into his harvest"
 In a word, Christ calls his followers to an active, earnest, glorious service.
 Down at the foot of that mount at the very moment when Peter proposed that they build the tabernacles was a boy waiting to be healed. It might have been pleasant for Christ and his disciples to have lived by themselves up on that mount, but it was far better that they should come down to minis ter to the sick and dying and to save the bodies and the souls of men.
 It will help us to see more clearly the duty of entering actively into Christ's service if we hold before ourselves the greatness of the work and it's boundless opportunities.
 There are more heather in China and India than there are nominal Christians the world over. In our own country the work grows greater and greater ever year. Nihilism. socialism, atheism, intemperance and all forms of evil seem to be uniting their forces and preparing to resist the onward march of the Kingdom of God. And into this work we are called upon to enter. There never was an age when it was such a privilege to live as the present, because of what may be done for God and humanity if we only have 0 mind to work.
 Those who died fighting for their country in the war of the rebellion died fighting in a grand and glorious cause.
 But here is one that is grander and more glorious. Into this work God calls each one of us. And if, at the close of the day, when the reapers come home from their work, we have been able to do nothing more than to glean in the corners of the fields, or give drink of cold water in the name Of dlsciple and have willingly and lovingly done that, wa sbell in no case lose our reward.